{"id":370,"date":"2025-07-11T20:11:45","date_gmt":"2025-07-11T20:11:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usmids.org\/news\/?p=370"},"modified":"2025-07-11T20:45:55","modified_gmt":"2025-07-11T20:45:55","slug":"interim-executive-director-appointed-to-the-mscdd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usmids.org\/news\/2025\/07\/11\/interim-executive-director-appointed-to-the-mscdd\/","title":{"rendered":"Interim Executive Director Appointed to the MSCDD"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"postie-post\">\n<p>IDS\u2019 Interim Executive Director Dr. Jerry Alliston is now officially appointed to the Mississippi Council on Developmental Disabilities Board.<\/p>\n<p>The Mississippi Council on Developmental Disabilities (MSCDD) is a membership board appointed by the Governor. This body of advocates promotes quality of life issues for people with developmental disabilities, their families, and the community. Board membership is composed of at least 60% representation from people with developmental disabilities and family members (parents\/siblings).<\/p>\n<p>MSCDD also includes representatives from public agencies and private organizations. The public agency representatives are designated to serve by top leadership from each agency. Required organizational representatives are from the following: Department of Rehabilitation Services (Rehabilitation Act of 1973), Department of Education (Individuals with Disabilities Education Act), Department of Human Services (Older Americans Act of 1965), Office of Medicaid (Title XIX), Department of Public Health (Title V), Disability Rights (Protection &amp; Advocacy), Institute for Disability Studies (UCEDD), and representation from a non-governmental agency and private non-profit entity.<\/p>\n<p>IDS is proud to have our Interim Executive Director serve on the MSCDD membership board as an advocate for people with developmental disabilities. For more information on how IDS advocates for the individuals and families we serve, visit us online at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usm.edu\/ids\/\">www.usm.edu\/ids\/<\/a> and subscribe to our monthly E-Newsletter to stay up to date on our latest programs and services.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IDS\u2019 Interim Executive Director Dr. Jerry Alliston is now officially appointed to the Mississippi Council on Developmental Disabilities Board. The Mississippi Council on Developmental Disabilities (MSCDD) is a membership board appointed by the Governor. This body of advocates promotes quality of life issues for people with developmental disabilities, their families, and the community. Board membership [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":371,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usmids.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usmids.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usmids.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usmids.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usmids.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=370"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/usmids.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":374,"href":"https:\/\/usmids.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370\/revisions\/374"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usmids.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usmids.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usmids.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usmids.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}